Motif
Circumambulation with fire
circumambulation_with_fire
A motif of the Sacred Fire and Divine Light family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 5934-6013 confidence: high
At Brest, torches are brandished and flung into the air; in Brittany, hill fires blaze, people dance, sing, and leap over embers, and a bonfire is built around a pole topped with a nosegay or crown.
Participants dance around fires, march around bonfires with torches, carry blazing gorse around cattle, and a cowherd circles the fold three times with a burning torch.
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